A Gypsy Mood
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
A gypsy mood dominates tonight with Smetana’s Dances from “The Bartered Bride” and Bizet’s “Carmen” Suite.
The famous dances from Bedrich Smetana’s opera “The Bartered Bride” have been an orchestral showpiece (and audience pleaser) from the moment they were first performed. We’ll hear them in our first hour tonight from the London Symphony Orchestra under Geoffrey Simon. Also, if you’re going to see “Carmen” at the Metropolitan Opera tomorrow night, we’ll give you a preview with Bizet’s “Carmen” Suite No. 2, in a classy and delightful performance from Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic with violinist David Nadien.
Musical fireworks abound in our second hour with pianist Vladimir Horowitz and Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto in D Minor; then later in the evening it’s a perfect storm of music as Claudio Abbado and the Chicago Symphony serve up Tchaikovsky’s symphonic fantasy based on Shakespeare, “The Tempest.”
The famous dances from Bedrich Smetana’s opera “The Bartered Bride” have been an orchestral showpiece (and audience pleaser) from the moment they were first performed. We’ll hear them in our first hour tonight from the London Symphony Orchestra under Geoffrey Simon. Also, if you’re going to see “Carmen” at the Metropolitan Opera tomorrow night, we’ll give you a preview with Bizet’s “Carmen” Suite No. 2, in a classy and delightful performance from Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic with violinist David Nadien.
Musical fireworks abound in our second hour with pianist Vladimir Horowitz and Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto in D Minor; then later in the evening it’s a perfect storm of music as Claudio Abbado and the Chicago Symphony serve up Tchaikovsky’s symphonic fantasy based on Shakespeare, “The Tempest.”
